samdoesnothing

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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
You gotta hand it to the Democrats, they're a lot more subtle about their corruption and malevolence. The Replublicans are comedically bad in contrast and it gives plenty of fuel to Democrats to claim that they're Different. A goo
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Consumers leave bad reviews and people stop buying the product.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
So the problem with your fridge example is that if the product was as bad as you say, nobody would buy it and thus there is no risk of a monopoly. If the product is so good that everyone wants it, there goes the rest of your pro-consumer ar
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
You brought up the MS antitrust suite and I'm providing context as to why it's not relevant.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Whoever owns the device can do what they want with it, Apple cannot tell you what you're allowed to do with your phone. You're making up a scenario in your head. This goes both ways - when Apple produces a phone, they own it and t
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> the web proves that security / safety can be done in an open way A) the web is full of phishing and other scams, as well as tons of low quality garbage B) the web achieves this security model by limiting applications to a browser
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Seems like there are a relatively large number of competitors to Apple and Google. Eg. Samsung, Motorola, Lenovo, OnePlus, LG, HTC etc. Not to mention Asian brands. Duopoly might apply if those companies were using their combined dominance
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Black turtlenecks? In this economy?
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Well they aren't a monopoly. They have what, ~50% market share? MS had 97% market share and were abusing their market dominance to push others out. Apple isn't doing this, so there isn't a valid comparison here.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
So am I? There's Linux phones and phones that run versions of Android that are completely decoupled from Google.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
There are many other computing devices that can run operating systems other than Android and iOS, including devices that can run completely unlocked versions of Android. You're just lying.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Oh yeah those pesky armed thugs that go around forcing you to buy Apple products sure are annoying... Nobody is getting forced to use the Apple platform.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
What gives you the right to tell someone who purchases Apple devices because of the walled garden that they should no longer have that option because YOU don't like it. What an incredibly entitled and selfish position. Have you even st
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
As long as you understood the limitations of the fridge you purchased, i.e. you weren't defrauded, what's the problem? Do you really need a nanny state to prevent you from making bad purchases??
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Yeah that was a lot of words to say caching is needed sometimes. As always it's an engineering decision full of tradeoffs. You should never duplicate your data, except when you need to...etc etc.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
No they don't. I think Meta is just big enough that they don't really care what is happening with React anymore haha.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Also kind of funny that they're comparing it to Log2Shell. Maybe not the best sort of company to be keeping...
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Satire?
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Kafka is another.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Is that the case? I thought that it would be a copy instead of a heap allocation. Of course the compiler could inline it or do something else but semantically its a copy.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Go is returning a copy of the slice, in the same way that C would return a copy of an int or struct if you returned it. The danger of C behaviour in this instance is that a stack allocated array decays into a pointer which points to the dea
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> Capitalism mixed with strong safeguards ensuring that there is a return for productivity for everyone feels like the best attempt we've made at a system that works for everyone until all the safeguards began being dismantled in th
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
New sources of income will inevitably be the money printer.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Is your redesign live for chipscompo? Because if so, and absolutely no offence meant here, the UI looks like it was built by an intern. And fair enough, you sound like a backend guy so you can't expect perfection for frontend work. My
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Thats the whole point of democracy, to prevent the ruling parties from doing wildly unpopular things. Unlike a dictatorship, where they can do anything (including good things, that otherwise wouldn't happen in a democracy). I know that
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Yeah, and? OP is trying to make it seem like some sort of failing, where people aren't cut out for game dev or something so they just make game engines instead. But I can guarantee that anyone who can create a game engine can also crea
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
That's about $5 in USD if anyone is wondering
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Or they leave the country, which would then be very unpopular for the governing parties involved.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Why would they do that? There are plenty of platforms that simply won't care, and there's stuff like Mastodon et al.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Why would game engine developers want to make a game though? Plenty of devs prefer building the underlying frameworks and tools over the products those tools create.

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